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w. if lf I" fc-'v- 'CS, & f? & Eft- S*\ FARM DEPARTMENT The Chronicle will be glad to print contributed articles this department head from Golden Valley Farmers. Anything pre taining to Brain growing, gardening, or stock raising that will be of value to your neighbors should be sent in and we will irt.nU/ give it space without charge. Write on one side of the paper only and mail to "Farm Department," Golden Valley Chronicle, 1-oach, North Dakota. Tell it All to The Assessor March 26, 1915. Dear Mr. Editor: So important is it to the people, and especially to the farmers of the state that they give the asses sors an accurate report of their statistics that 1 again am enlisting the services of the newspaper boys of the state to assist this de partment in spreading the infor mation- I will deeply appreciate it if you will publish the following item in your next issue. Yours verv trulv. R. F. Flint. Commissioner. During the month of April, the assessor will call upon the taxpay ers. and this is the year in which hp anthers the statistics which are tabulated and reported to the jp^vffrnor. Thev constitute the o^-'al statistics of the state and rp~p?ve the widest possible publi- f" thst the state government o-ive them. It is of vital importance to the ?~—»r that he understands this r-'^Tition for instead of the«e f-—rs against him, they are his r• rotation against the spec ,~r who arranges his figures to f'-?mse1f. and which might 'n.gair.st the farmer. If the r's fitrnres prove inaccurate -reliable, then his cause and use of the county in which the entire in °s. and in fact suffers by comparison Mmation of everyone who is knowledge of North Dak •?r products and resources, imissioner Flint, of the ag al department, is guarding terests of both the farmer state, and is out with the that all farmers, for their ood if nothing more, to the exact figures when hard And Garden Notes nas may now. ,'t forget to spray all apple ium trees this spring- It bringing in a few pussy braches or plum boughs :e into flower. is will be at their best now ster flowers and a trip to a .ouse will -be well worth gardens more useful and beauti ful? Watch the hot beds. Ventilate on bright warm days when the temperature rises, and be careful about watering. Water is best applied early in the day, so that it may have a chance to evapor ate from the foliage before night. —LeRoy Cady, Associate Horti culturist, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. Easy Method of Harvesting Corn There is no easier nor more ec onomcal way to harvest corn than to hog it off. The hogs, if permitted to do so, will harvest the crop for nothing and will make more economical gains than if they were fed in a pen. This method of harvesting, however, necessitates a little fencing which should not cost any considerable sum. One does not need to have woven wire more than 26 inches for this purpose, neither do the posts need to be placed as near together as in the ordinary hog oasture for the reason that the Ho"s are abundantly suppled with fred and hunger does riot tempt them to try to get out. A tem porary fence may be quickly and easly made by starting the holes with a crow bar and finishing by driving with a maul. The corner posts should be as in any other fence—well and firmly set. If all or part of the fence, is made in the corn field instead of around it, the fencing may be lade easier by cutting a row or two of corn where the fence is to be made. A lttle figuring will show that a fence around a small area is relatively much more costly per acre than a fence get around a large area. With this in mind, seme farmers, particularly as' the assessor calls, those who have permanent fences same applies to those in have fenced in from twenty to ies and villages who are forty acres of corn and then cut •d in manufacturing and with the binder that portion of the enterprises, in that they, field that the hogs will not need. make as oed a showing'The cut corn must, however, be •ibl e, as every item of pro-j removed from the field before a recommendation for thei the hogs are turned in. Everything showing indus-j There are situations where no mid be represented in the fencing will be required. Where the distance between neighbors is sufficiently great, and where no appreciable destruction will re sult from the hogs running loose, they may be given their freedom and be permitted to harvest the corn without it being fenced. be started into canna bulbs from the room and pot them in a soil. Later the pots may out in a told frame. not grow seedlings in varm place. They must :ouraged to grow stocky cculent. et peas may be sown as the soil can be worked, nay also be started in pots house, and transplanted outside. said the mistletoe is next and insects in the amount nage to forest trees in the It is a parasitic plant, living tree. this month is a good time ne ornamental shrubs and Do not prune early spring ng shrubs until they are flowering. way has 144 tree-olanting *s- The first was founded 0. 26,000,000 trees have et out. More than 2,000, ere set out last year. you noticed the color of 1 twig dogwood, golden and soft rnaple twigs on days? They are worth around for their cheerful ow. sh cottape gardens are the world over for their and utility. Why not pay tention to making our own It may, for a time, appear that corn is being wasted when being hogged off. However, it has been found thta there is practically no waste. Speaking of this point a North Dakota farmer who has hogged off considerable corn says that over $3.00 worth of corn could be wasted per acre and one would still be as far ahead as he would be if the corn were hired husked. He states, however, that his hogs have always gathered the corn up with less waste than there would be if it were husked. Rape sown in the corn at the last cultivation will add variety to the feed for the hogs and wil cheapen the cost of pork produc tion. A safe rule to fol'ow is three four spring farrowed shoats to each acre of corn. Such pigs should weigh about 100 pounds each when corn is ready. Forty to sixty days' time will be requir ed to clean up the field. The hogs should make a gain of 75 to 1 00 pounds each. If live pork is worth $7.00 per cwt. about $20 per acre should be realized on the corn. Some Tomato Information worms, top and rcot pruning to hasten rinening, ripening toma toes after frost comes. Th* information in this bulle tin will prove valuable even when crowing but a few olants as they should nroduce at least 20 lbs. of ri™e fnn't each, if given the pro per handling. N. Dak. Adding Cattle and Hogs The increase for the present year will be still greater. A re cent issue of the Kenmare Journal said: "Cashier Engdahl, of the Farmers & Merchants Bank, in company with E. C. Miner return ed Sunday from the Twin Cities, where they purchased 98 head of cattle for distribution about Ken mare. The shipment contained one car of steers and two cars of heifers and pearlings. One car load of the animals has already been sold to George Repnolds, who has taken them to his farm southeast of Kenmare, and a num ber of smaller lots have been tak en by farmery in this vicinity. The animals are shorthorn and Black Poll mostly and among lem are some good milkers.They are being offered for sale at reas onable figures, and anyone wish ing to see them should call on Mr. ngdahl or Mr. Miner soon." From the Mandan News the fol owing clipping is clipped: 'That Dairying is booming in Southern Morton County is evid enced by the fact that six of lasher progressive farmers have spent just $2,620 fcr a car load of thoroughbred Holstein cattle rom members of the Holstein ireedng circuit of New Salem, he car load consists of 29 head of stock, nine pure bred cows, two pure bred bulls, six pure bred calves and 12 grade heifers." And so it goes. North Dakota will soon take front rank in cat and hogs. Seeding Sweet Clover Twenty to twenty-five pounds of the hulled sweet clover seed should be sown on an acre, while at least five pounds more of the unhulled seed should be used, ac cording to the Grand Forks Coun ty Better Farmng Association Ex pert. Frequently 50 percent or more of the seed is hard, which will not germinate readily. For this reason more seed is necessary than would otherwise be the case. Although this rate makes seeding expensive, the general experience las been that it is not too much under average conditions. The seed may be sown broadcast and covered with a smoothing harrow set rather slanting or else with a grain drill with grass seed at tachment. In either case the seed should not be covered more than about three-fourths of an inch deep. Early Spring is Time for Pruning Early spring after cold weath er is gone and before buds start is the best time to prune fruit trees and for this reason information is being sent out by the Agriculture Extension Division of the Univer sity of Minnesota, as to methods and practices in pruning. Pruning is done to give trees good form, to eliminate crowdec centers, and to keep trees grow ing and producing normally. Tomatoes can be grown wit a good deal of success in Nort Dakota. Yields of 23 to 38'/2 tons per acre of ripe tomatoes were secured at the North Dakota Experiment Station with different strains of the Earliana. The suits of the tomato experiments are given in Bulletin 111- It takes up such points as varieties, when to plant, how to plant, time cired to produce ripe tomatoes after planting the seed, hot beds transplanting, soil, manure, cut- place and generates electricity At the Yellowstone garage at Bowman, the gas tank of an a*et vline gas welding outfit exploded doing considerable damage to the building but fortunately not injuring anyone. One piece of the machine weighing fully fiftv lbs. was thrown through the wall of the building, breaking off a 2x4 and dropping 200 feet from where it started. A number of flowing wells have been brought in around the Killdeer mountans in Dunn coun ty. The wells are found at a depth of from two to three hund red feet and one on the Bob Wil cox ranch has a pressure of sev enty pounds. Mr. Wilcox has in stalled an electric plant on his for power and light. The North ern Pacific has brought in a flow ing well at Werner in Dunn coun ty for its engine supply. The wells are seemingly inexhaustable and produce water of the finest qual ity for steaming purposes as well as for drinking and household purposes. GOLDEN VALLEY CHRONICLE IS The North Dakota farmer adding cattle and hogs as profit makers on his North Dakota land. A very recent bulletin of the Unit ed States'Department of Agricul ture, sent out from the North Da kota statisticians office in the Fed eral Bulding at Grand Forks, shows that on January 1st, 1915, there were over fifty per cent more hogs in North Dakota than on a like date 1914. In the same one year period, Dairy cattle in creased 10 per cent and other cattle 1 I per cent. There are now 339,000 milk cows in this state, 515,000 other cattle, and 642, 000 hogs. NEWS NOTES The Congregationalists of Val ley City have just let a contract .or a $38,000 church. Dickinson with a population of 5,616, shows deposite of $403 per capita. This condition holds good throughout the district J. C. Ireland has been appoint ed postmaster at New England, succeeding J. F. Grady, who re signed after three years service. The police have found no trace of the robbers who held up Engineer Billy Williams at Man dan. It is believed they beat it an a freight. While the agent of the Great Northern railroad at Hannaford was at supper, a burgler broke in the depot and secured the sum of $15.05. There are no clues. At a bond election at Fordville it was decided by the people to build a new city hall, fire station and jail combined this coming summer. The proposition car ried by a vote of 38 to 1 7. J. Nelson Kelly, superintendent of the Grand Forks city schools, was elected for the 23rd consecu tive time. He has a longer con tinuous record by 12 years than any other superintendent in Grand Forks. The North Dakota Christian Endeavor Union convention will be held in Minot May 7,8, and 9. Delegates from all over the state will be in attendance and much important business will be trans acted. Wm. J. Hadden was found dead in his demolished home stead shack, four miles north of Killdeer. The heavy dirt roof had caved in sometime during the night, burying the unfortunate victim underneath the mass of dirt and poles. After terrorizing the home of Christ Hollweger, a promnient Arvilla farmer, on two consecu tive occasions, and assaultng Mrs. -lollweger, Frank Shyka, a "lum Der Jack," was captured and brot to Grand Forks. He is now odged in the county jail pending an investigation as to his sanity. Inserting her finger into the throat of her little three year old daughter, who was fast strangling to death from the effects of some oreign object lodged in her throat, Mrs. J. Johnson of Grand rcrks felt a hard object. Work ing her finger into an aperture in the object, she slowly drew a small toy cart wheel, which the child had in some manner loosen ed from the tiny engine and plac ed in her month. Aarcn, the ten-year-old son of A. O. Bondelid, of Grand Forks who suffered a fall into the base ment of the famly home, in which he struck his head upon a spike, the blunt point penetrating the brain, passed away at a local hos pital. The immediate cause of death was septic meningitis, or brain fever, superinduced by the noison which had entered the brain issues before the seriousness of the wound was discovered, when a physician hours afterward made a diagnosis. State Shriners are interested in the anouncement that the semi annual ceremonial session of Kem Temple, Mystic Shrine, and the reunion of the Scottish Rite Mas ons to be held in Grand Forks in June will be the greatest Mason festival of the year in the 1C northwest, according to George Duis, potentate of the temple. There will probably be 2,000 Masons of various degrees from all parts of the northwest there for the big festival, which will be held in the new temple, just com pleted. It is expected, according to Mr. Duis, that 450 new mem bers wll be taken into Kem tem ple at that time. The anti-alien gum law enacted as a part of the new North Dako ta game measure is expected to be an important factor in the pro tection of game and song birds. It is an adaptation of the famous Pennsylvania law and in reality makes it a crime for a foreign resident who has not applied for citizenship and who has not been a resident of the state continuous ly for a period of three years to nossess either a shotgun or a rifle. The Pennsylvania courts upheld the law which was finally carried by foreign consuls to the United States Supreme Court and held constitutional bv that body. It is not aimed at the settlers in this sate, as these usually apply for citizenship at once, but it is large lv for the purpose of preventing the large foreign railway track gangs from ruthlessly slaughter ing game. 'HE Glenwood "Four-36*' has the famous Paisje Motor 4x5 116 inch wheelbase Gray & Davis lighting and starting system Bosch mag neto silent chain drive Stewart carbu retor multiple disc cork-insert clutch most effective modern lubricator dis tinction and beauty of body-design the Paige Prestige Perhaps you—like many other men have said that you would not buy an automobile until the utmost in motoring Peter Henning, 19 years of age, and the only son of Mrs. John Henning, residing one and one half miles west of Carbury, ac cidently shot and killed himself Monday afternoon. Killdeer is planning on the greatest fourth of July celebration in the history of the county and then some. Several hundreds of dollars are now collected for this purpose, and the committees ap -inted are busy taking care of the business assigned to them. The recent election at Tower City was held to have been illegal because candidates for office were chosen at a caucus and because of the further fact that the voters I were allowed to vote for four1 trustees instead of the one who was to be chosen. As a result a special election has been ordered to be held April 20. That the equal suffrage ques tion is not dead in this state is in dicated by the numerous inquir ies received by Mrs. Minnie Clarke Budlpng, secretary of the state library commission, for data on the question. Most of the re requests state that the matter re quested is to be used in debates and many of the requests come from rural communities where there are small debating clubs. J. M. Page, formerly of Ellen dale, died by his own hand in his hardware store in Spokane on the morning of March 18th. The Spokane Chronicle gives some de tails of the affair, saying that Mr. Paige got up as usual that morn ing, bade his wife goodbye as usual after breakfast, and went to his hardware store, locked the doors, broke the keys in the locks, passed into the rear of he room and sent a bullet through his brain. He was found some time afterwards. Mr. Paige .was farmer in Ada township twenty five years ago. Later he moved to Ellendale and engaged in the hardware business with E. Founain. It is believed anarchists at Kief, a small town near Drake, tried to kill a Russian named Johns, by placing explosives in the coaj. When he built afire in the stove an explosion shattered it into bits. Luckily he was in another room and was not injured. Johns an ignorant old man and did not search for the cause of the explo sion, but went immediately anc purchased a new stove, and with in an hour had another fire burn ing. He was lucky again to be in the adjoining room when the second explosion which blew the new stove through the cealini? of *he room occurred. Sheriff Wik of McHenry county was called and discovered that sticks of dyn amite, carefully packed had been drilled into several pieces of coal and placed in the coal bin. Sus pected parties have been arrest ed. Lots of nice girls think nothing of sopping up eight or ten beers. But if you offered them a drink of bonz* they would feel highly in suited. 'Thm Standard of Vola* and Quality' Here It Is—The Car You Have Been Waiting For Don't these mean Quality? could be had at an ultra popular price. PaigeDetroit Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. C. F. SMITH, Agent wmm If so, here it the car—and here js the price. The Paige Glenwood "36" offers the utmost in motoring because it provides—in generous measure—every last feature which should be incorporated in a handsome, serviceable, depend able four-cylinder motor car. No man could buy more than that—no man should be satisfied with less. So, carefully examine the list of specifications which are printed here. Forget altogether, the matter of price and ask yourself if you have ever heard of better features in any car—at any price. Then, let the Paige Dealer show you what these feature* mean in actual demonstration. Also see the epoch-making Paige "Six-46"— $1395. 0 ANNOUNCEMENT I have opened a plumbing and tinsmith shop in the building formerly occupied by A. J. Wein berger as a carpenter shop—south of Eliason's hardware store. I am prepared to do all kinds of plumb ing, fitting, tinwork, heating plants installed and general work connect ed with a first class plumbing and tin work establishment.. J. G. PEALL, SlVak. WISCONSIN CAFE Place has been remodeled and new Fixtures and Booths installed. It is now in First Class Shape—Good Cooking and Good Service. F. J. ESSENE, Proprietor For Reliable Information Read the Chronicle WE ALWAYS HAVE Plenty Money on hand for real estate loans. If you want a loan you will do well to see us as we are the oldest ana best established loan agency in this territory, v, will give any prepayment privileges. WE WRITE ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE. PIESIK LAND & LOAN CO. B. T. PIESIK, Manager